On January. 04, 2006, sky watchers somewhere will see a dazzling display of Quadrantid meteors.
In 2006 the Moon will be a Waxing Crescent so there will be no interference. The best place and time to watch is after 3:00 am local time on Wednesday, January 4th in Asian.
North American observers m...

The Arietid meteor shower streams from a point only 30 degrees from the sun, peaks on the 8th June. The best time to look is just before dawn. This is the strongest daylight meteor shower of the year. The duration extends from May 22 to July 2. The hourly rate is 54 at maximum. This meteor shower was discov...

The Chi Capricornids are a daylight meteor shower. The shower has a broad active range between January 29 and February 28 with a peak during the day time hours around the 13th February. The chi Capricornid radiant is located 17°SW of the Sun in southern Capricornus, (Peak radiant is at =314.3°, =-23....

The Pi Virginids meteor shower occur between February 13 and April 8, peaking between March 3 and March 9, with two to five meteors per hour. The shower was first observed in 1908 and identified in 1948. Read more

Starting from today the Southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower will appear, lasting until August 19; and peaking around July 28.
The meteors will radiate from a point in the constellation of Aquarius.
Expect to see 11 meteors an hour, though sometimes it can be as high as 50/hour.
The...

The Southern Iota Aquarids meteor shower peaks on August 5 with a ZHR of two. With these low rates one would be lucky to see one shower member per hour. The radiant is currently located in south-western Aquarius, five degrees west of the third magnitude star Delta Aquarii. At 34 km/sec the meteors have...

People in many areas of Taiwan will have the opportunity of witnessing two waves of rare and spectacular meteor showers are set to appear next week. Astronomers at the Taipei Astronomical Museum said people will be able to see the upcoming meteor showers with naked eyes under fair weather condition...

The Geminid meteor shower officially begins on December 6th, but it doesn't peak until the morning of the 14th at 02:24 UT.
The best viewing time this year is on Tuesday morning, December 13; the last couple of hours before morning twilight, when the Moon will be near or below the horizon. The Gemini...

Alpha Centaurid meteor shower. The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower is considered to be a "minor" meteor shower. The reason is, on average, only 3 to 5 meteors per hour are normally observed during this shower. This particular shower is also considered to be for more advanced meteor observ...

The Alpha Virginids occur between March 10 and May 6, peaking between April 7 and April 18, with five to ten meteors per hour. They were first detected in 1895. Read more Shower Activity Period Maximum Radiant Velocity ZH...

This meteor shower extends from 21st May to the 16th June. With the broad maximum on the 10-15th June. The radiant point is near the borders of the constellations Ophtuchus, Sagittarius, and Scorpius. The Theta Ophiuchids are best after midnight and from southerly latitudes. This shower is also kn...

Maximum of the South June Aquilids meteor shower in the constellation Aquila on the 17th June, 2011. The shower is active from the 9th June to the 2nd July. ZHR=3.0 Velocity=38.6km/s Radiant: RA=19.5h/293° Dec=-4.9° During June 13-19, 1961, C. S. Nilsson (Adelaide, South Australia) detected...

There is one well documented annual meteor shower which is associated with the constellation of Ophiuchus which peaks on or about June 20 of each year - the Ophiuchids. The radiant - or point of origin - for this meteor shower is near Sagittarius border. The fall rate varies from average 8 to 20 meteors...

The Alpha Capricornids are active from a wide radiant located in western Aquarius, three degrees northeast of the fourth magnitude star Epsilon Aquarii. Current rates are about one per hour. They have a velocity of 23 km/sec.
Active: Jul 3 —August 15; Maximum: July 30 (λ = 127°); ZHR = 4;
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25 bright fireballs were recorded over the eastern United States. "Our SENTINEL all-sky camera picked up 25 bright meteors in a shower that began at 06:20 UT and lasted approximately 4 hours. Most appear to have a radiant near Perseus, leading us to hypothesise an outburst of the September Per...

The Sextanids are active September 29 through October 9. Though, this one is more of a radio/radar shower as it occurs during the daytime with minimal activity. The radiate is in the constellation Sextans. The Sextanid meteor shower was first reported by Weiss (1960), who matched theoretical enve...

The Oct. Delta-Aurigids meteor maximum in the constellation Auriga is on the 4th October, 2011. The stream is active from 29. September to 18. October. ZHR=3.0 Velocity=65.8km/s Radiant: RA=5.6h/83° Dec=50.4°

The Earth is expected to encounter a great number of the comet 209P trails in 2014. The main source of activity should become 1898-1919 trails, however some meteors could be produced by the earlier trails of the comet, down to 1763 trail, which is the oldest computed trail, and even earlier. The compu...

The Pi Puppids are a meteor shower associated with the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The meteor stream was viewable around April 23 but only in years around the parent comet's perihelion date, the last being in 2003. Read more

Circinus is the radiant of an annual meteor shower, the Alpha Circinids (ACI). First observed in Queensland in 1977, the meteors have an average velocity of 27.1 km/s and are thought to be associated with a long-period comet. In 2011, Peter Jenniskens proposed that the debris trail of comet C/1969 T...

The peak of the Daytime Arietids meteor shower, in constellation Aries, is at 12:00 UT, 7th June, 2013. ZHR=54.0 Velocity=37.4km/s The stream is active from the 22nd May to the 2nd July. Though no one is sure where the Arietids dust comes from, some suspect it's debris from the sungrazing aster...